McKim, John Linn

Life span:

07/20/1813 to 08/21/1909

Dickinson Connection:

Class of 1830

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Life Summary

Full name:

John Linn McKim

Place of Birth:

Carlisle, PA

Birth Date Certainty:

Exact

Death Date Certainty:

Exact

Gender:

Male

Race:

White

Sectional choice:

North

Origins:

Free State

Family:

James McKim (father), Catherine Miller (mother), James Miller McKim (brother), Penelope Rodney Layton (wife)

Education:

Dickinson (Carlisle College)

Occupation:

Diplomat

Clergy

Educator

Relation to Slavery:

White non-slaveholder

Note Cards

John Linn McKim (Dickinson Alumni Record)

Reference

McKim, John Linn --- Born July 20, 1813, Carlisle, Pa. ; prep., Dickinson grammar school ; entered, 1827 ; A. B., 1830 ; clergyman Protestant Episcopal church ; professor of Latin and Greek, Delaware college, 1835-36 ; United states consul to Nottingham, England, 1889. Address, Georgetown, Del.

George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 88.

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Major Topics

Dickinson College

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John Linn McKim, circa 1900

John Linn McKim, circa 1900, detail

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